Nasal dish.



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H. L. HARRIS.

NASAL DISH.

APPLICATION ILED DBO. 5, 1902.

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HARRY L. HARRIS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

NASAL DISH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 722,102, dated March 3, 1903.

Application filed December 5, 1902. Serial No.133l998. (No model.)

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Beit known that I, HARRY L. HARRIS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Nasal Dishes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in devices for use in cleansing the nasal passages, and has for an object to provide a dish especially designed to be used in applying the wash through the nose in such position that it will not pass down the throat; and the invention consists in certain novel constructions and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of the dish as in use. Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the dish, and Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional view on about line 4 Ll of Fig. 2.

The dish may be made of glass, chinaware, sheet metal, gtitta-percha, or other suitable material, as may be desired. It is in the form of a shallow pan or dish having at one end the cut-out portion ct, which is curved properly to tit the lip immediately below the nose, the sides B and the end C, opposite the cut-ont end A, being unbroken and the dish being sufficiently large in plan to permit the nose to be placed down in the said dish close to the end plate A in the use ot the device, as shown in Fig. l.

Within the bottom of the box adjacent to the end A are formed at the opposite sides the projections D, which slope inwardly on their inner edges at d and upwardly on their upper edges at d toward the end A of the dish, said projections converging toward the end A of the dish, as shown, and leaving sufeient space between them to receive the nose in the use of the device, and they contract the end of the dish adjacent to the end plate A, so that if but a small portion of the solution should be placed in the vessel it can be drawn into the nose. It will be noticed, especially from Fig. l, that the dish is suiiiciently large to permit the face to be applied thereto in a plane parallel with that of the dish, so that in the use ofthe device the dish can be placed flat upon a table or other support and the user can lean over to bring his face in approximately a horizontal position,

so that the entrance to the throat will not be below the nasal passages. In this way I avoid the passage of the solution into the throat and thence to the stomach and avoid the injurious results incident to drawing the treating solution into the stomach and at the same time permit the patient to wash out the nasal passages easily and thoroughly.

In the specific construction shown the projections D, sloping laterally inward and Vertically upward toward the end A of the dish, are securedV by narrowing the bottom of the dish gradually from a point D toward such end A, as best shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The improved nasal dish herein described having one end out out in its upper edge to conform to the lip below the nose and having the bottom of the dish provided with the opposite upwardly-projecting portions which slope laterally inward and vertically upward toward the said cut-out end of the dish and converge at their inner edges toward the said end substantially as set forth.

HARRY L. HARRIS.

Witnesses:

- SoLoN C. KnMoN,

PERRY B. TURPIN. 

